Call Me Kate

friend who went to bed is a type of dead wife

The fastest way to accomplish The Project is to cease being afraid of The Project. The Project cannot maim you. The Project cannot kill you. The Project is more afraid of you than you are of it. It is okay if The Project turns out differently from how it was in your head, and it is okay if it has flaws. You are capable of engaging with The Project.

do other countries do the whole “leaving furniture you want gone on the curb for other people to just grab” or is that an american thing

The Dutch do it and it's called The King's Gift, but when Brits do it, taking the stuff is actually a crime called, wait for it, Theft By Finding.

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we need a ritual where you can climb into a hole in the ground for roughly 24 hours and just close your eyes and not do anything, and nobody is allowed to look for you or speak your name, and whenever you want to reemerge then you can climb back out and people are forbidden from commenting on your absence. can someone get on this.

No, actually, i want cables and not bluetooth, i don't want touchscreens, i want buttons and knobs, i want to be able to take the battery out of my phone, i want to charge my phone and plug in head phones at the same time, i want a cd drive in my laptop and not have to buy an external drive, i want a car without a display, i want to turn on the lights with a switch not with my voice, i want to have a paper cinema ticket not a QR code, i want to listen to illegally burned music on a 00s cd player, i want to watch movies that i actually own, i want to read news once a day on paper, i want to aimlessly flick through magazines and not doomscroll on social media, i want to write emails and not talk to chatbots, i want to own stuff without hundreds of digital subscriptions, i want

you gotta read, you gotta write, you gotta draw, you gotta watch films and shows. there is literally NO time to be employed

Having a job is an awesome way to stay hydrated because you get so bored you start drinking water just for a little excitement

they're trying to get me to do something called ""my job"" instead of reading about medieval english poaching laws

The older i get the more i understand why some people become obsessed with privacy, not because they’re hiding something, but because being constantly perceived starts to feel spiritually exhausting.

hated when ppl said "wow i can't even draw a stick figure" when they learn i draw but then i realized i do the same thing at ppl who are good at math so i'm really no better than them. this realization has stopped this knee-jerk reaction of disdain when it happens at me, and has basically completely stopped me from doing it in turn at others. the grace feels a lot better than the rage or the shame. fwiw

yesterday a man watched me drawing, and a few minutes later he asked about it and whether I’d been doing it for long. i usually get the stick figure reaction, but he shared that he really liked drawing when he was younger and had always wanted to draw comics, but ended up leaning into sports. as an adult he said he still doodles in margins and planned to start drawing again in earnest when he retired. 🥹

The first rule of fandom is have fun. The second rule of fandom is find an enabler and become an enabler. Yes you should write that fic. What if it was even hornier? What if it was angstier? What if you wrote it just for me?